Screen, stage, vaudeville, and television actress.
Began in show business at age 11 belting ragtime songs in a Jewish music hall, located next door to her family's flat on Cannon St., for $3 a week. Discovered there by the Yiddish Theatre manager Jacob Adler.
Performed with the Ziegfeld Follies and had her own radio show for the Columbia network during the 1930s.
Specialist in ragtime and torch songs, often provided by Irving Berlin.